anytime anywhere. but. right. now we have nationwide outrage in the us with mass protest in dozens of cities against the acquittal of george zimmerman a florida neighborhood watch volunteer who was charged with murdering an unarmed black teenager. russian opposition activist alex in a volley is bail the day after being handed a five year jail term for embezzlement and a trial that's captivated the world's media. and also this week turkey is accused of letting israel use a military base to launch a recent air strike on syria that information coming from our sources but ankara denies the allegation. backers of ousted president

mohamed morsi clashed with opponents at mass rallies while a new cabinet this morning and despite the violence. it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program now crowds of protesters have been gathering in cities all over the u.s. voicing their fury over the recent acquittal of george zimmerman and he was cleared of murder over the shooting of unarmed black teenager trayvon martin in florida last year the court ruling has been widely branded as racist count has more. we've seen protests in dozens of cities in the u.s. throughout the week following the verdict in the george zimmerman case people took to the streets demonstrating at courthouses and police stations throughout the country demanding justice for trayvon martin the seventeen year old black man who was shot dead by

a neighborhood watch volunteer dozens of people were arrested most of the arrests were made on charges of a lawful the samplings some places like the salmon and you don't protest for in violence demonstrators who walks in passing cars the president america's first black president spoke from the heart on friday when he recalled some of the instances when he had been looked upon with suspicion for no apparent reason just because he's black but the president also tried to put out the fire of protest by basically saying as much as you don't like the verdict don't blame the jury and the judge blame the existing law many many americans too many many americans were following the zimmerman trial it's obvious that racial disparities in the application of criminal laws in america remain all these people think had trayvon martin being white he would have been alive even president obama thinks so the civil rights activists here it's obvious that george zimmerman followed trayvon martin because he was black the seventeen year old trayvon martin was locking home in his own neighborhood with a pack of skittles can his in his pocket having done nothing wrong the jury

apparently found that although it was a bad judgment on the part of george zimmerman to pursue the young man but when the to confront each other cement acted in self-defense the fact of the matter is that under florida's stand your ground law the defense doesn't even have to prove that their client is an angel it's enough to prove reasonable doubt that the defendant acted in self-defense and they're free to go so in this case you have a clash of different issues raised civil rights vigilantes guns in self-defense lost these people see a clash between the law and justice a very recent example also in the state of florida black woman a mother of three was sentenced to twenty years in jail because she fired a bullet at a wall to scare off her abusive husband. nobody was injured and the woman is in jail for twenty years while george zimmerman walks free but you see the faces of the people outraged. now president obama also said that he could easily have been in trayvon martin's position thirty five years ago meanwhile university of

minnesota professor elisa albrecht who was among those protesting in her state told us that the case reflects a deep racial bias in the u.s. legal system. all that data just system in this country is racial from the moment of impact police arrest more people older and white people. are convicted in greater numbers they serve sentences that are longer and there are greater numbers of people who are in prison and the united states are given in in terms of their population so you already have all that data and that this we see as a continuation of. this man has been acquitted so now it's time for our government to hear our words. also have for you this hour resisting us staring a greek or cursed walk out in a nationwide strike to take to the streets for the mass rallies but fail to stop

their government slashing yet more jobs our report from athens is on its way. also had for you old feuds are reunited in northern ireland as loyalists refuse to stop their protests until they are granted permission for a highly controversial parade route passing through a sectarian flashpoint that's coming up. russian opposition activist and anti-corruption campaign are on the scene of ali was sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement on thursday but released on bail the next day after a surprise request from prosecutors are just a radio show has been following what's been dubbed one of the russia's most controversial trials in years to form an orgy five and four years in prison with that if you terrorist going to be for setting up a dummy for police and defrauding his timber company to the tune of patently dollars the judge insisted the verdict was not politically motivated but foreign media the blogger supporters and opposition activists declared otherwise one gets

the feeling people have already made up their minds before the case even started and before the trial even started and they're not actually looking at the. facts of the case or of the way the trial was actually conducted but are simply following their own opinions which they formed in advance what the kind of comments say is that someone like mr valma should not be prosecuted on this kind of charge because he is a famous opposition personality now that seems to me to put things completely the wrong way round thousands of people in moscow's many years in the square a stone's throw from the kremlin indignant at the verdict calling it unfair and immense police presence and if east of panic and social media for awhile it looked like the situation could escalate. but there was a curveball from the prosecutor's office to request a friend of irony in of itself until their verdict comes into effect in their immediate arrest

a preliminary detention to stick to measure as you put in spokesman said there was nothing unusual about the trial or the prosecutor's appeal stressing that the president cannot and does not influence the court decisions and that those convicted should carry out their punishment as prescribed by the judge and his blog novelist said that he was ready for a long term preliminary confines and ordering books from the library and battling mosquitoes and his self but he spent less than twenty four hours and detention before being released from this court house straight into the arms of his supporters eager for his campaign to continue so who is the self-appointed opposition figurehead who's running for mayor of moscow a lawyer by profession not only spent the better part of the last few years flirting with nationalistic movements as well as leading a popular blog exposing large scale corruption and trying to make a foreign into politics his trial the verdict and the surrounding media frenzy may have aged him closer to that goal he can according to your earlier report russia moscow city he can give as many interviews as he likes it's an absolute publicist

a godsend for him it doesn't remove him from politics at all it's the absolute ideal solution for him in a sense it's been referred to a. rod is russia's mandela moment perhaps too bold to claim the b.b.c. those the state run british broadcasting corporation calls it russia's mandela and they've been running stories all day just previously you know bill keller the executive editor of the new york times used the lord to this man you know novell me you already outlined his nationalist views here in this country we have laws against incitement you have the semitism incitement to neo nazi ism which of course this man has flirted with repeatedly although he may not be major household name in russia yet. he seems to have some serious support abroad he is paid by or has been paid by the united states of america when he set up the democratic alternative a year or two ago it received money from the n.e.p.

the n.e.t.'s the national endowment for democracy funded by the u.s. congress that was the main organization funding the orange revolution in ukraine back in two thousand and four the valley's party received money from the american state as wiki leaks showed not so long ago it even goes quite keen of central direction. and we've got an in-depth coverage on that story over in our website also on the line for you to day wheelchair user has detonated a homemade bomb ad beijing international airport injuring no one but himself apparently to drive hand into a brutal police tap that left him disabled had to r.t. dot com to find out more about b. incident. and staying with airport troubles and northern mexico travelers queuing up to board their flights found themselves knee high and water after a flash floods breached the terminal building and find all the pictures on our in

motion page at r.t. dot com. news today is once again. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operation. welcome back israel has reportedly used a turkish military base to launch an attack on syria and that information revealed by our sources earlier this week has been rejected by the turkish government which also can damage any media mention of it the alleged israeli attack was on latakia in early july targeting a russian made anti-ship missile battery which syria received two years ago this is

the fourth i'm confirmed israeli attack on syria in recent months a military compound outside the mask as it was bombed from the air twice in january and may rockets struck a warehouse at the capital's international airport allegedly containing surface to surface missiles on all occasions the attacks were justified as operations to wipe out iranian missiles bound for as will lie in lebanon my colleague our research a spoke to journalist manning austin writer who's extensively covered the conflict in syria and he's a turkey remains israel's key ally in the region no matter what's happened between them. this pint of the critics of prime minister in the in the past years especially in turkey is still a very important ally and maybe maybe the most important in the region what's more important for turkey than getting rid of assad oaky ping on good terms with the rest of the regional players turkey is we have to remember a very very important nato member and turkey knows that it is acting also for the

nato turkey is now providing the military bases for the nato patriot rocket system which are directed against syria so turkey knows how to make its own let me tell it neal autumn on dream of being the leading power in the region and with its role playing in the nato and the nato is. syria very aggressive and very aggressive three especially the united states but what do you think of such cooperation between some of the syrian government's toughest rivals in the region mean now for the assad regime well i don't think that this is a huge change for the general situation because. what's supporting in the past the so-called rebels in this what the media claim it is a civil war but isn't the reality since a long time approx evil or we have right now militants from more than twenty five

nations fighting in syria against the syrian government and of course east river was supporting the rebels they were they were they follow arms and weaponry from. the revenue side and turkey also is supporting in a strong way the rebels on syrian soil. so despite their recent unfriendly ratter turkey and israel remain united against a common anomie the us a government in syria at r.t. dot com we're looking at the reaction within turkey and across the arab world. well a wave of ultranationalist violence in the u.k. thousands of police are deployed to keep the far right progress under wraps what's that's coming up after the break here. apple for example much of its manufacturing is done on in the united states so i

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with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports . welcome back this is our to egypt seeing more violent clashes street protests throughout the country this week dragging on the border standoff on saturday the army blocked a huge march by morsy supporters on the republican guard headquarters where mary believe the deposed president mohamed morsy is being held that's a day after three people were killed in clashes between rival crowds of demonstrators in the city of months. deadly street battles intensified as a senior u.s. official visited egypt for the first time since the military took over at least seven people were killed and hundreds of protesters detained on tuesday the country's interim leader swore in a new cabinet excluding members of morsi as muslim brotherhood the islamist movement has rejected the cabinet and its supporters are vowing to continue the mass protest egyptian journalist shahira amin told my colleague lucy confident that

shining the group out was a dangerous move. i think is a fatal mistake excluding any political faction from the transitional political process is a fatal mistake people were complaining the morsi was in when izing the state and now they are doing exactly the same keeping the islamists sidelined hoping to push them back underground this will have very serious implications just a short while ago there was a very brutal crackdown on pro morsi protesters outside the parliament. and just last week fifty one pro received protesters gunned down by security forces we're already hearing jihadi groups say they will launch. a holy war to defend islam but at the same time the muslim

brotherhood brotherhood of leadership had willingly boycotted the transition government had effectively removed itself from the transition do you believe that that was a mistake on the part of the islamists. yes they refuse to take part in any negotiations unless lord c. is reinstated which of course there's a very slim chance of that happening they are in denial and i think that their only chance is to take part in national with conciliation talks because. other than that i don't see any solution to this crisis while the greek government is pressing ahead with a sturdy having improved more public sector job cuts struggling to please its international lenders that's despite a massive general strike against sauza and strong rallies bringing public services

to a standstill earlier this week to secure its next b.o.r. tranche athens will have to redeploy or x. twenty five thousand civil servants. under a veil passed earlier this week around for a sow's and state employees will lose their jobs by the end of the year well up to a sow's and workers are being fired in greece and every day according to recent surveys by the hell any statistical authority and since two thousand and nine unemployment has skyrocketed from a little over nine percent and to almost twenty seven percent and greece's g.d.p. has plunged by almost one hundred billion euros artie's has been on the streets of athens talking to the protesters protected by a law since the nineteenth century public workers are still considered to be the foundation of the greek economy but its creditors have demanded that the government cuts up to twenty five thousand public jobs before the end of this year otherwise greece is not going to get its latest financial aid package worth over six billion

euros so doctors teachers security guards want to support police public transport drivers and others have all got on strike and gathered at the country's prevalent in athens to fight for their jobs it does the beginning they have in mind to destroy every public service in greece to meet the cheers we need people in the health section sector we need people for the. garbage for everything for the past six years the greek economy has been in recession on the one it is at twenty seven percent but there are many of those who do work efficiently but haven't seen their salaries in months to handle three graduates are people to find a job there's a rise of drug addicts and the firm was including those with a for education and decades worth of work experience but the general feeling on the street is not only the government which is to blame for the situation we have people and grown men in the private sector people on the ground with no indication in the public sector for the state for the first time that we need to use

a new policy u. policy not only in greece but new policy in the european. you. know what happens next labor is like your decision not to back down until the troika. actually realizes it's not only about adding or subtracting numbers but about the real lives for real people you've got this. race while thousands of pro loyalists held a rally in northern ireland after belfast authorities denied permission to march through an area separating the rival unionist and nationalist communities and have a security presence the parade passed relatively peacefully with no repeat of the recent mayhem orange order supporters have vowed to return to the same spot every saturday until they are allowed to march on their traditional route before his refusal to approve the parade route resulted in five nights of rioting with

additional police drafted in from across the u.k. dozens were injured and several arrests were made christian science monitor is island correspondent jason walsh says local authorities have been taken by surprise by the extent of the unrest. six member. group well i think you would expect we're. going on. which is a bit of. the orange order for. the local residents so i think you want your. rights to your order surely don't.

want to march in another group of people. the order of more. meanwhile over in england police were also called up in droves as a far right protest spiraled into full on clashes between police and a fascist groups in birmingham at least fifteen people were arrested during the demonstration organized by the english defense league in their drive against what they call the islamization of their country over a thousand police were called in to keep the peace but forty say they can ban these gatherings despite the surge in violence since the horrific killing of a british soldier in london in may. at least sixty five people have been killed in a string of coordinated bombings in and around iraq's capital another one hundred ninety people were injured as over thirteen bombs went off in baghdad the attacks targeted mainly bustling shiite areas as locals emerge after they were daily ramadan fast the ramadan and attacks have so far claimed over five hundred lives.

germany's der spiegel magazine claims that the country's security services have been eagerly helping the u.s. in its global surveillance operations the publication allege that the national security agency's x. keyscore program was used to collect a huge volume of online traffic coming out of germany but german chancellor angela merkel earlier said she only found out about the n.s.a. snooping practices via the media. and the man who blew the lid on those surveillance operations edward snowden is now awaiting russia's approval of his temporary asylum request the fugitive american intelligence leaker could now be granted refuge for one year for now though he remains stuck in the transit zone of the moscow airport where he has been for over three weeks now if snowden gets the paperwork he'll finally be able to leave the airport and enjoy most of the rights of any russian citizen it is unclear how long he'll remain in the country though however to be allowed to stay in russia out of former n.s.a.

contractor had to agree not to release any more of the that could harm the u.s. interests but swedish pirate party member a million. believes snowden was actually trying to strengthen democracy in his homeland. democracy is a form of governance but i think what you can tell from mr snowden's. excuse that it's not just the election process right but you also see that we've seen values like human rights to dignity and sanctity of a person's private lives and the importance also of granting people a private life in order to use the participate in a democratic process so previous is one of the preconditions for us the able to. develop democratic human to participate meaningfully in such a process and so countries p.v.c.'s not best preserved always from the risk of not to may be building up to democratic values. and though while snowden's been

scrambling to avoid prosecution the trial of a fellow whistleblower is nearing its hand in the u.s. the closing arguments in the trial of bradley manning could come as soon as friday he's facing life in prison the army private is accused of aiding the enemy in the handing over thousands of classified military documents to wiki leaks for the details of the ongoing case here's r.t.l. as well. private first class bradley manning faces several charges twenty one total the most serious of which is aiding the enemy the other charges range from computer fraud to theft of government property and asked be a notch if convicted of that most serious charge manning could spend his life behind bars without the possibility of parole even if he is not convicted of aiding the enemy the remaining charges amount to one hundred fifty four years behind bars this week the judge could have dropped that aiding the enemy charge but she decided not to manning already spent some serious time in prison about three years before his trial even began now the trial is in its final stages we should hear closing

arguments next week that it's up to the judge and this court martialled to decide the verdict now this comes at a time of great debate over whistleblowers in the country many see manning as a hero but his opponents see him as a traitor for exposing government secrets the secrets include iraq and afghanistan war logs and videos of air strikes one ton of obaid detainee assessments and diplomatic cables many activists believe the outcome of manning's marcel could set an example for future whistleblowers a glaring example for us is n.s.a. leaker edward snowden many points of manning's pretrial treatment and heavy handed charges as an example of what's to come for snowden should he set foot in the u.s. leading up to the trial and during the trial there have been several demonstrations in support of manning the next major one be organized by manning support network is set for july twenty seventh it's the international day of action for bradley

manning the group is calling for protests in several cities throughout the u.s. and abroad here in fort meade maryland live all parties. and coming up global risks and opportunities from the e.u. and u.s. debt crises that's in a world apart right after the break so. or remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better or who cares if stores are in the end this piece of paper a one hundred thousand tons of potatoes that is good enough for me well now we're in a new age of technology but the same lying to make yourself feel good is still going strong it just moved over to the capitals world the u.s.

state department's bureau of international information programs has spent six hundred thirty thousand dollars on facebook advertising campaigns to get fans a sense of the government is out there to buy likes oh what a fantastic use of tax dollars but wait maybe i'm being too pessimistic perhaps it worked and really helped spread the message of the us state department effectively well inspector general's report says that since the advertising campaign started twenty eleven there has been a dramatic increase in users liking state department sites but the problem is that only two percent of them actually use the sites so you get what you pay for a big bag of likes but if you hard core fans probably the most shocking example is a vision of america group in farsi made for a rainy and which has gotten over four hundred twenty thousand members but only one percent of them is actually in iran where facebook advertising doesn't even exist that's effective getting lots of likes doesn't mean you are actually reaching people instead of paying for them why not you know get them naturally bar by providing interesting honest content on

a regular basis oh wait that takes effort and honesty yeah you know what just keep wasting our tax dollars but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to worlds apart europe and america have been the locomotive sell to the global economy for more than five decades but as they struggle to emerge from the crisis.